Last weekend I prep'd and primed a whole bunch of star ships from Ravenstar's Cold Navy line in a medium gray. I finally got the chance to paint the base coat on a set of six Deisho ships to complement the nine other ships I had painted.

Unfortunately, it had been about half a year since I painted, and the base color, a Floquil dark gray, proved to be darker than the previous attempt and I must have put the color on too thick. The new ships came out in a far darker and more green than the previous try. I compensated by making a wash with water and the Floquil concrete, which lightened the base color but, as expected, left more of the concrete color in crevasses. I solved that problem by painting the crevasses with a dark gray wash.

The effect will be nice once I detail the ships, but I didn't get the base color to match well enough. Hopefully, when I apply the base coat to the third group, it will look more like the first group and not the group I am working on now.

This is still my life, sadly, …

from Larry Leadhead.  Time to go buy their books.

I finished a set of Cold War-era NATO microarmor for a game, and started work on a group of Minbari star ships.  With the base done on the Minbari ships, I took a break and started to build two Shadow Omegas.  Unfortunately, the Shadow Omegas are difficult to put together with pieces breaking off easily because there are no mount points for the spines.

Finished drilling the mount holes on some already painted Narns that I bought from hiffano months ago. 1 Bin'Tak and 3 G'Quans. I hope to use them in an upcoming game with my Brakiri.

I started work on the Brakiri ships.  Base is done for all three of them.  Just need to do a bit of detailing.  Then I have to finish up some painted Narn G'Quans I picked up a while ago.

I finished two PsiCorp Shadow Hunters this week and posted a picture of the two of them at Flickr:

I pretty much used the same technique as I have with other Shadow-like ships:

1. Spray prime with black;
2. Paint with several coats of Floquil NATO Black;
3. Apply a wash of silver multiple times.

I cannot list the paint/water ratio I used, since I adjusted it to be more silver between each coat.  I think I applied at least four coats.  I am more satisfied with this result than what I achieved with the other Shadow ships since the silver is more noticeable.  I photographed it under florescent lights so the lighting conditions aren't the best.